Key details Current treatment limitations: While ischaemic strokes – which account for nearly 90% of all strokes – are currently treated with clot removal and supportive rehabilitation, there remains a significant unmet need for therapies that directly address...
Key details Understanding Lesch-Nyhan syndrome: This rare, recessive condition linked to the X chromosome primarily affects boys, and is characterised by a deficiency of the HPRT enzyme, leading to severe motor dysfunction, uric acid overproduction, and compulsive...
Farzana Naveed, the courageous mother of Azan, shares her family’s journey with their son’s rare condition, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, and how stem cell therapy brings hope for a better future. Understanding Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome...
Calling all sports fans – Could you give a cheek swab to save baby Francis’ life? Meet baby Francis from Walton in Liverpool. At just three months old, this beautiful boy has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer, Acute Myeloid...
“Stem cell transplants have freed patients with type 1 diabetes of daily insulin injections'” The Daily Telegraph has said. The news comes after research that allowed volunteers to go, on average, for two and a half years without using the multiple daily...
Surgeons have, for the first time, used a combination of an artificial heart and stem cells to save the life of a dying man. Ioannis Manolopoulos was fitted with the mechanical pump because his heart was too weak to push blood around his body. Surgeons then injected...
